| Description Of Item | This document displays eight separate images of hands and fingers.
The printed coloured image on the top right-hand side of the document displays a hand which is entitled ‘ Onychia Maligna’ the nail on the middle finger is swollen and has lifted.
The next image on the document is a coloured printed image of a hand entitled ‘ Psoriasis Diff: Et Unguium’. The nails on the hand are brown in colour and ridged in texture. The skin that surrounds the nails is red and exposed.
The next image, entitled ‘Onychitis Heredito – syph’ is a collection of hands whereby the fingernails are brown in colour and ridged in texture. Some of the fingernails are warped in shape.
The next image is entitled ‘Onychitis Ohron’ is a coloured printed image of a hand where the fingernails are brown in colour and ridged in texture. The skin surrounding the nails is red and exposed.
The largest image on the document is a printed coloured image of an adults hand which is entitled ‘Psoriasis Diffusa’. The skin on the hand is broken exposing red chapped skin, which has spread across all the fingers and the palm of the hand.
The final coloured printed image on the document displays fingernails which are blackened in the middle and ridged in texture. This image is entitled ‘Onychitis Syph’.
Illustration from E Burgess’, 'New Sydenham Society Atlas of Skin Disease'. |